125 responses to “The Case of the Missing Frink….”

I don’t think I get the Kwik-E-Mart trick to work properly. I tried to purchase 20 at once just to test if it really lets me buy them all at the lower price but when I calculate the money spent it’s never a low amount. Am I doing it incorrectly?

You’re both kinda right. If you fill your XP meter before that, then you just level up (and maybe get one or two donuts as a reward, depending on which level). But I’m not sure I’d do that if I were a low level player…it can be very confusing to keep track of the difference between what XP level you’re on and what game level you’re on. There will be plenty of time for things like farming later! 🙂

The rat trap truck is in the store. Just turn on the collider and buy and sell as many trucks as you can afford (leaving some cash in reserve).

However, if you don’t have at least several million dollars on hand, I wouldn’t bother, as you may not recoup your initial investment in the collider.
Kwik-E-Mart farming is basically the same thing, only worth Kwik-E-Marts instead of trucks. It takes longer and is more work, but the ultimate return is somewhat higher.

If you want more info than that, just read through the comments section of virtually any semi-recent post… it’s been explained in the comments over and over again, so you should have no trouble finding it.

I’d love to acquire Frink however my donuts are very depleted at the moment; only have 72 and missed out on the Kwik-E-Mart opportunity.

I’m at level 122 with $73 million and 260% bonus (also should have full Springfield Heights multiplier); can anyone estimate how many donuts I might be able to gain using the XP collider, please? Thanks!

Thanks. You were right, it was a lot of donuts. I purchased 24 hours of the XP collider yesterday then went through around 1000 x Kwik-E-Marts and spent all the rest on trucks – advanced from level 124 to 703 gaining 579 donuts!

Hope that I can now afford both the Professor Frink package and the Soul Extraction Institute (ends today)!

The exact “pre-rebate” cost would be very useful info. With so many premium items available, I would like to know how many donuts to keep in reserve for Frink.
It would also be helpful to know how soon the deal will be offered. If he doesn’t come back until act 3, then we have more time to earn the donuts we will need.

I’m looking forward to getting the Frink deal! time to spend some of these hard earned donuts 😀 and I absolutely love the Super Collider, its one of my favourite buildings in my Springfield. Absolutely no regrets!

If you have Frink and his lab, there will be other ways to get the related characters. It is still sketchy at this point…so we aren’t going to guess. Just know that everyone gets the same shot at characters at an EA-quitable price. LOL!

No, but I like it – it’s very subtle. The door opens and the tree starts getting sucked inside the building. It’s actually a building animation caused by the task, not a visual character task. I often use it. RachelS

I hope this isn’t a spoiler, but I visited a neighbour and saw Bart walking around in a giant robot suit shooting a rifle. It looks like a tie-in with the Avatar movie. I suspect it’s for an old event, but I’m just surprised I’ve never seen it before

Has anyone else noticed that when u r visiting other Springfields that u can tap on the rocket launcher n send it into space (as long as it’s not on fire or already in space) and receive $200 n XP when it returns in 12 hours????

Has anyone else ever noticed that if u tap on the rocket launcher while visiting other Springfields that u can launch it n get $200 n XP after it comes back in 12 hours?? (If it’s not already launched or on fire)

Are you sure you actually get the XP for that? There are a couple of things it looks like you can do in others’ towns, but you don’t really get the reward. It would be cool if this dogs actually work, though! 🙂

A reply for Pam re flash glitch. Yes! I had it on my A game, though it worked fine on my B game. Very frustrating as I kept trying! The camera button appears top right of screen when in Sci-Fi game mode only. For some reason it just wouldn’t appear or not work in my main game.

Another glitch I’ve had (Once each in both my games now) When the whole local area disappears! One cannot see the building – or anything while the tap robots game is in play. Hard to defend a building when you can’t see it! All I get is grass. I have deliberately not decorated & left a wide birth around event buildings due to this glitch. Anyone else with this one? Cheers from Australia!

EA messed up and I couldn’t get the Solid Gold House, so hopefully that too? I find the dialogue from Mr. Burns about Lampwick being in the game funny.

I was in another friends town and there was some dialogue from Otto to Frink about a Frinkometer or something, didn’t catch it. Hawking said something after….nothing changed though. Ideas? Thanks for the posts!

Awesome stuff. Can’t wait to add Frink to my town at a discount. I was incredibly happy they offered Barney at a discount earlier too. Basically I have a list of ‘must have’ characters and I’ve been able to check Barney and Frink(soon) off my list.

Ever since they offered characters at a discount, I’ve splurged on far more characters than I would normally buy(I used to buy one character a year). So far, I got the greatest value out of Brandine cuz she spawns three NP characters that earns $$$.

The Barney discount happened earlier this year with the Space Odyssey event. The funny thing is that around 3 years ago during Christmas, you could get Barney for free by earning and trading in event currency.

At some point in time, I hope to have all the mainstay premium characters(non-event exclusive). =]

Yes! I was actually looking in here to see if I’m doing it wrong. I’m also not getting roaming robots in my town, but I do see them in friends’ towns. There ARE supposed to be random robots aren’t there? Anyone else having this problem?

Ah, just as I thought (more or less…didn’t predict the second-character thing). I’ve put off getting him up until now because I find his voice annoying (wouldn’t it be cool if we could turn on and off individual voices?), but, if it’s a good deal, I think the time has come. (Plus, his building won’t look as out of place now that we’re getting ask this futuristic science-y stuff.)

Of course, raking in donuts at a good clip makes buying an easier decision now than it used to be!

I think this is a great idea. Basically, it stops people from buying him before they release the deal, and being ticked off at EA. That happened to me in the deep space mini event, although I bought Barney the day before it kicked off, so this approach wouldn’t have helped me either. Now I don’t buy anyone unless they’re on sale. Event rebate or Black Friday, etc. only for me from now on! And yes, will be getting Frink!!

🕵🔎 duh, He’s still tasking it up in my town, and the reason I couldn’t find him in my City Hall “Sensis” (which I spelled wrong the first time around) was because I looked him under “F” for Frink instead of “P” for Professor Frink

Which brings me to an EA suggestion: if they can make alphabet/letter tabs instead of scrolling all the way down to search for a single character. 🔍🙃

I’d love a “building” category. Sometimes it’s easier for me to tap on City Hall and find out who all is in the church than to scroll around. Or to try to figure out what building a task is in from the vague description sometimes. Or see everyone who’s roaming versus who’s in a building.

I’ve been wanting Frink since I started playing back when the game first came out. I’m so excited for a deal since I’ll finally have the donuts for a change, unlike the early years where they were too hard to come by.

What did you do with all of your Springfield Heights buildings? I hope you didn’t store them, or your partially defeating your KEM farming thing, because you’ve brought down your XP multiplier substantially if you did….

Noooo they all got shoved in the corner and the beach all bunched together. Heights looks a mess, but no one really pays attention to that anyway 😛 I also don’t have TOO many yet since I haven’t focused a lot on it, so it wasn’t too hard 🙂

They seem to be locked at $220 each, no matter how many you buy. It’s really cheap to farm them and collect XP to level up quickly.
I’m seeing a lot of lower level neighboreenos doing this too. Not sure if I personally would want to grind levels and spend that cash at level 21, but to each his own!

Why? Farming Kwik-E-Marts still provides a better return, if you have the time and patience. We’re just back to where we were a few days ago beside the glitch, and many people were already farming Kwik-E-Marts for donuts.